Xiaomi Upgrades New Mi Gaming Laptop With Hexa-Core Intel CPUs For the past week, Xiaomi had been teasing the release of a new product in partnership with Intel at China Joy and we speculated the company to refresh its first-ever gaming laptop,the Mi Gaming laptop,that was launched earlier this year. Well, the Chinese giant has given us just that by updating the internals on theoriginal Mi Gaming laptopwith the addition of the latest 8th-gen six-core Intel Core i7 chipsets....

Amazon India’s ‘Freedom Sale’ Kicks off on August 9 Though the Amazon Prime Day saw an onslaught of discount offers, it seems like the e-commerce giant isn’t done treating its Indian users just yet. Amazon India has today announced the‘Amazon Freedom Sale’to celebrate the country’s Independence. It will kick off at 12:00 am on August 9 and is going to run until 11:59 p.m on August 12. The Freedom sale will go live within the next six days and the e-commerce giant claims tooffer hefty discounts (over 20,000 deals)on a range of products from the likes of close to 2500 brands such as OnePlus, Honor, Samsung, Dyson and others....

AMD Unveils Semi-Custom Gaming SoC Powered by Ryzen CPU and Vega GPU AMD is challenging Intel with its new generation ofRyzenCPUs and is also targeting the gaming, design and research community with the monstrous 32-coreThreadripper 2, which will be available later this year. In a bid to gain more edge over its archrival Intel in the gaming segment, AMD as has announced a semi-custom Zen-and-Vega SoC for gaming PCs and consoles....

Apple Hits Record Market Cap of $1 Trillion Apple became the first publicly traded US corporation to reach a market capitalization of $1 trillion, beating other tech giants, such as Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft, in the race to reach the milestone. After closing up nearly 6 percent in the previous trading session, Apple shares climbed another 2.4 per cent on Thursday, hitting $207.05, the price needed to reach a $1 trillion market cap, or total stock market value, at 11....

Apple is Now A Trillion-Dollar Company: Here’s How it Got There Apple has finally become the world’s first publicly traded US company to have achieved amarket cap of $1 trillion. Let that sink in. We had all been keeping a close eye on Apple’s share prices over the past couple of days, knowing that the Cupertino giant was close to achieving this major milestone. Ever since Apple beat market estimates toreport record numbersin its quarterly results earlier this week, its share prices have been on the rise....

Chinese Media Dismisses Claims About Google’s Return to the Country Taking technology enthusiasts by surprise, Google is reportedly planning a re-entry into the Chinese market. ButChinese media has denied the veracity of the original report, saying China Securities Daily, a state-owned newspaper, reported today that Google’s return to China might be a much distant affair than it seemed. The daily citedreliable sources including “relevant departments” of the Chinese governmentto back its claims....

Chrome 69 Beta Brings Notch Support, Removes ‘Secure’ Badge on HTTPS Sites Google hasrolled outChrome 69 Beta with a number of changes that include both new feature additions, as well as thedeprecation and removalof multiple legacy features. The changes apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS and Windows. HTTPS Everywhere? Next to the URL, Chrome currently displays a little tag that features a lock icon and the word ‘secure’ in green, letting users know that the data is being securely encrypted, rather than sent out in unencrypted plain text, which is what happens when using the old HTTP standard....